Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-07-07
THE NEWS.

Charles link committed suicide by
hanging, at Massillon. o.
The "Citizens Temperance League, "of
Ohio, has been organized for nOn-parti-
San temperance work.
An old rusty barlow knife has been
found in quarry near Greenup, KY =,
IN bedded in solid rock.
General Sheriden says the idea that
he recommended the return of the rebel
flags was preposterous-
The Republicans of the 7th senatorial
district of Ohio nominated A B Cole, of
Scioto, for state senator.
Alice Ford, living ten miles from La
| fayette, Ind, suicided with strychnine
because her lover, Charles Chiffon, ,Jilted
her.
| At the commencement of Harvard
College he senior class graduated 236
out of 251 members, the largest number
on record.
Mrs l.angtry's attorney in San Fran
cisco says she has taken up her residence
there for the purpose of institutIng a
divorce suit.
Mrs Mary Ball. the wife of a wealthy
farmer near Mt. Vernon, Ohio, was fin>
ed $3.50 and costs for cruelty beating a
little colored girl.
Washington c H (O) saloon keepers
and friends of whisky will test in
court the constitutionality of the pro-
hibition ordinance.
Dwyer Bros, famous colt fremont
has broken down in training. Last year
be was reckoned the greatest 2 yeaa old
ever on the American turf.
The losses from the fire at Marshfie
Wis, will be over $4,000 900. Half the
business part of Hurley, WIS, has also
been destroyed. Loss, $S0,000.
On Monday last 1o5. 900 messages were
handled in the Western Unions main
Office in New York, being the heaviest
day in the record of telegrapby.
According to the assessors census
just completed, the number of male
adults in Hamilton county, O., has in
creased over ten thousand since 1888.
Thos O'CoDnor pleaded guilty In Phil>
delphia to indictments of involuntary
maDslaughter for causing the drowning
of five persons by upsetting rowboat.
The differences between the Pittsburg
iron manufacturers and the Amalgamat
ed Association were practically settled
at a conference Wednesday of last week.
Pemberton Hairless, who lives on
Beaver creek. not far from Ava, Mo,
while on his way to mill, was shot and
instantly killed by an unknown assassin
in ambush.
At the Yale College comm 4ncement
Hon Edward PierrepOnt said that the
college course as laid down was too ex
tensive in its requirements for the av-
erage man.
''Ten Brock, the great race horse, died
last week at the stable of his owner.
Frank b Harper, on Nantura Stock
Farm, near Midway. KY. He was fif
teen years old.
The Mccoy nitro giycerine factory at
Findlay. o.. blew up, causing people for
miles around to think an earthquake I
bad occurred. The factory was com
pletely demolished, but nobody was
hurt.
Greenville. N. G., reports great excite
ment in that vicinity Numbers of
young men are buying arms and anu
milton. Lawless whites are banding
with the negroes and adding to the
strife
The new constitution of the Knights
of Labor prohibits the use of any kind
of Intoxicating liquor at any gathering
whether for business or pleasure, under
the auspices of the order. The penalty
is suspension.
The jury in the Jake Sharp bribery
trial brought In verdict of guilty.
They were out only seventeen minutes.
On account of the prisoners age and
feeble health they made recommends
tlon for mercy.
Over 500 citizens of Rowan county, Ky.
were adopted, and pledge signed by all
who attended, to protect their lives, if
necessary, the citizens from the lawless
acts of desperadoes.
At meeting of the Executive Com
mittee of the Ohio Republican League
at Columbus, it was decided to hold a
State Convention at Toledo, July 20.
Other States will be represented, and a
held relative to forming a
National League of Republican clubs.
e B Bird, manager of an opera COM
pany touring IL Mexico. says that last
winter the entire company was arrested
at Del Norte and put in Jail. Four
members died of small pOx, and all sut.
fered great privation. They were only
lately released, having lost everything
they possessed.